sympathetic - Story 146456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, can we talk?" Liam asked, his voice barely a whisper. The DNA results had confirmed his suspicions. He was adopted. His mother's face was a mask of emotions, her eyes welling up with tears. He reached for her, and gently held her hand. He thought of all the times she’d held him, soothed him, loved him unconditionally. He thought of the hurt that he felt about being kept a secret, but a greater depth of feeling swelled inside of him. He wasn't sure what the future held, but right now, all he wanted was to be sure she was alright.

Emotion: sympathetic

Cluster: Compassion / Love

PC1 (Valence): 1.13 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.75

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sympathetic. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sympathetic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sympathetic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sympathetic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`H`	0.521
`L`	0.421
`B`	0.401
`la`	0.338
`sympat`	0.305

Suppressed:

`iostream`	-0.334
`简直`	-0.306
`再び`	-0.305
`chẳng`	-0.296
`не`	-0.296